Jewish Refugees France-Brazil

General Information About the List

In his book Quixote nas Trevas, o embaixador Souza Dantas e os refugiados do
nazismo (Editora Record, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo, 2002) Fabio Koifman
describes how Brazilian ambassador to France, Souza Dantos, issued over 500
immigrant visas to refugees, most of whom were Jews. This was done despite orders
from his government not to do so. The book, in Portuguese, describes his activities
and lists the persons to whom visas were issued.

Recipients of the visas came from all over Europe, but were resident in Vichy
France or Morocco when the visas were issued.

What is in the Database

The persons are identified by family, maiden and personal name, and, in most
cases by nationality. Dates of birth are often given, but places of birth are less
available. Information which was not recorded includes specific place where the
visa was issued, profession and comments.

This database contains the following fields:

Family name

Maiden name

Given name

Date of birth

Place of birth

Nationality

Comments

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Mr. Koifman for permission given to Peter Lande to computerize
the list and donate it to JewishGen for the Holocaust Database. Mr. Koifman can be
reached at fkoifman@estacio.br.

Thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and
database expertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks
to Susan King, Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued
contributions to Jewish genealogy. Particular thanks to the Research Division headed by Joyce Field and the volunteer project coordinators.